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Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship slideshow& The INQUIRY Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Slideshow and The Inquiry The Journals of the Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship and Mellon Mays Fellowship Programs Dedicated to Undergraduate Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Published by The Center for the Humanities and the College of Arts and Sciences Washington University in St. Louis May 2011 contents Editor’s note __________________________________________________________ iv Foreword (Slideshow) ________________________________________________ v Gerald Early Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters Faculty Director of the Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellows Program Director of the Center for the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis All in the Family? HIV/AIDS, Disability, and Informal Caregiving Networks Michael Dango _____________________________________________________________ 1 “Drawing is Nonetheless the Female and Painting the Male”: The Rehabilitation of Color and Decoration by Henri Matisse and His Critics Betty Gibson ______________________________________________________________25 A Coincidental Cup of Kenyan Coffee: SNCC and Malcolm X Recast the Struggle in Nairobi Howie Rudnick ____________________________________________________________39 Biographies for the authors of Slideshow _________________________________59 contents Foreword (The Inquiry) ____________________________________________63 Shanti A. Parikh Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African American Studies MMUF Academic Coordinator Washington University in St. Louis Joseph D. Thompson Senior Lecturer in African & African American Studies Educational Archivist for Film and Media MMUF Academic Coordinator Washington University in St. Louis Meet Me at the Crossroads: A Revitalized Analysis of Race, Preference, and Affirmative Action Kimberly L. Daily _________________________________________________________65 “Nigga What, Nigga Who”: “Nigga” as a Tool of Characterization and Social Critique in The Boondocks Naia H. Ferguson __________________________________________________________75 Knowledge, Society, and the State: Civil Society Participation and Legitimization through Transparency Initiatives in Azerbaijan Thomas Hernandez ________________________________________________________87 Senderologist Literature: Gendered Language and Representations of Women in the Shining Path Maria Santos _____________________________________________________________ 101 Jim Crow’s Middle Class: An Examination of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Devolution on Colorblind Legislation Monica Smith ____________________________________________________________ 113 Biographies for the authors of The Inquiry _______________________________125 editor’s note All the articles in this journal are formatted in the Chicago style, even social sciences papers that would normally use APA formatting. This was done for the sake of uniformity (to make the journal as professional looking as possible by giving it one style) and readability (to make the journal easier to read by not abruptly changing styles from article to article, particularly in regards for nonacademic readers, who constitute a significant portion of the journal’s audience). We wish to make social science professionals who may read this journal aware of this fact and why this formatting was used. Aside from normal copyediting and uniform format- ting, the content of these articles was not changed in any way. Gerald Early Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters Faculty Director of the Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship Program Director of the Center for the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVISORY BOARD 2010-2011 Nancy Berg is Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Steven Meyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures. English. Kenneth Botnick is Associate Professor of Graphic Design Joe Pollack is a writer. in the School of Art. Anne Posega is Head of Special Collections, Olin Library. Gene Dobbs Bradford is Executive Director of Jazz at the Qiu Xiaolong is a novelist and poet. Bistro.. Joseph Schraibmam is Professor of Spanish. Elizabeth Childs is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, and Archaeology Henry Schvey is Professor of Drama. Mary-Jean Cowell is Associate Professor of Performing Wang Ning is Professor of English, Tsinghua University, Arts. China Phyllis Grossman is a retired financial executive. Jim Wertsch is Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice Chancellor for International Michael Kahn is an attorney, author and Adjunct Professor Affairs. of Law. Zurab Karumidze is Director of US-Caucasus Institute, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Ex Officio Peter Kastor is Associate Professor of History and Edward S. Macias is Provost & Exec VC for Academic American Culture Studies Program. Affairs. Chris King is Editorial Director of The St. Louis American Gary S. Wihl is Dean of Arts & Sciences. Newspaper. Olivia Lahs-Gonzales is Director of The Sheldon Art Gal- leries. iv foreword One of the most important aspects of the mission of was Dean of the College James McLeod’s idea to identify the Center for the Humanities at Washington University the program more closely with the academic traditions and is reaching out to undergraduate students. Relatively few personages of Washington University itself, a very sound humanities centers engage undergraduates, though this is idea, indeed.) The MKUHF is a two-year program, which slowly changing, most feeling that their universities provide accepts a small number of its applicants at the end of their enough services and activities for them. The centers are sophomore year. We pair the student with a mentor and largely the province of faculty and graduate students. This guide the student through a long-term research project is an understandable prejudice, if not quite, at this time, a through the structure of weekly seminars devoted to the sustainable one. Undergraduates occupy too large a portion discussion and analysis of their research. Kling Fellows are of the population and the reality of a university to ignore also provided with a summer stipend and support during them. Besides, if what humanities centers have to offer is the academic year to facilitate their research, permitting a crucial form of enrichment to the general public with its them even to travel to archives and attend conferences. colloquia and lectures, to graduate students with its read- Finally, Kling Fellows, like their peers in the Mellon Mays ing groups and faculty seminars, and to faculty with its Program, produce annually a journal of their work, Slide- fellowships, why should undergraduates as a population be show, the latest volume of which you hold in your hands. exempt from engagement? It seems almost a form of preju- (Copies of the earlier volumes may be requested from the dice, as if humanities centers should not take undergradu- Center for the Humanities at [email protected].) ates seriously because undergraduates do not have anything The seniors of the MKUHF Program produced the work serious to offer and what humanities centers have to offer is that is featured here. Betty Gibson, an Art History major, too weighty for them. This is nonsense. considers the transformation of art criticism in assessing the But how to engage undergraduates is the question: As works of Matisse: specifically, how and why the so-called the Center offers few courses and has no teaching staff, feminine “decorative” elements in his work were re-labeled one way that this Center’s advisory board thought we could “masculine”; History and Economics double major Howie engage students is through encouraging and supporting Rudnick’s paper is about the young leadership of the independent research for a select number of students who Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, their trip to majored in any of the humanities disciplines. We were in- Ghana in 1964, and their encounter with Malcolm X while terested as well in students with social science majors who, they were there; and finally Michael Dango, an English we thought, might benefit from being around humanities major, deploying both legal analysis and critical theory in students. We felt that humanities students would benefit as his essay, examines the legal meaning of being disabled well from being part of a group where they had to grapple with AIDS, the nature of family, and the Americans with with and take seriously the work of their social science Disabilities Act. peers. In this way, it was felt that the Center might be able These are independent essays, polished and meant to to contribute to the spirit of interdisciplinary exchange stand alone, extracted from the students’ Honors theses. on the campus among the students, markedly different, For undergraduates especially, this effort to produce a though, from what they encountered in the classroom. free-standing essay, meant to be read by non-specialists, Faculty did not often find undergraduate students very culled from a larger work can be daunting. But if they are helpful as research assistants but have often thought that as to consider becoming college professors and high-level professors they might be helpful in guiding undergraduates researchers, they must come to understand this exercise as in the students’ own research projects. a necessary and useful skill. Redacting, editing, revising, The Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship Pro- recasting,